"The desire for pleasure from the
objects of
the senses which comes from women [lower nature] and offspring
and stored-up reserves of gold and silver, marked horses (by their
names), and cattle and properties, appeals to the worldly men. These
are the comfort for this material world. It is with
Allah which is an
excellent abode."

"Say (O
Muhammad): Shall I inform you of something better than these which are so dear
to you (O worldly people)! For those who keep from
evil and are aware of their duties to
Allah, there are gardens with rivers flowing beneath, and pure
companions and the blessings of
Allah.
Allah is watchful of
His Bondmen." (The Family of 'Imran, 14-15)

<1>What these verses describe is that, "The
desire for pleasure from the
objects of the senses which comes from women and offspring, and
stored-up gold and silver," and horses, cattle, and similar things,
are all the attractions of the external world. In verse 15 it is
said, "Those who keep from
evil," which means,
those who keep from being attracted to these things which are
evil (attractions to
the external world) can understand the reality of the spiritual
world.

<2>So again
evil
is nothing but excess attraction to the external world.
Evil is not a being. It
is a quality of the human which can be overcome. So evil is the same
as
Maya, the attraction to
the material world.

"...You bring the living from the dead, and bring
the dead from the living." (The Family of 'Imran, 27)

<3>God
can bring the living from the dead and He can bring the dead from
the living. So
God (Allah)
in the Koran is
an able
God. He can do whatever
He wishes to do. If He is an able
God and can bring the dead from the living and the living from
the dead, then He is also able to reincarnate. If we say He cannot
reincarnate, then we are saying that He is not an able
God as
Prophet
Muhammad taught.

"Zakariah said: My Lord, lay upon me a token. He
(the
Angel) replied: The
token for you is that you should not speak with people for three
days but by signs, and remember the Lord much, and praise Him by
night and early morning." (The Family of 'Imran, 41)

<4>Thisverse presents that silence, the
remembrance of
God, and meditating on
Him and His creation is a part of becoming closer to Him. That is
why
meditation,
silence, and being an observer is recommended by all great
spiritual
teachers to keep oneself away from the crowd. <5>Also
this encourages thinking about the creation, what is happening in
this world, why we are here, what we are doing here, what we are,
what is God, etc.

"...and I raise the dead, by
Allah's permission..."
(The Family of 'Imran, 49)

<6>It is
Allah
(God) who will decide to
raise or cause to die. It is
God who can reincarnate or not reincarnate. It is
Allah (God) who can
send the same person again and again to this earth, or not. It is
God who can also send some people sometime or other people other
times. Or it is
God who does not send at
all. <7>So again, if we say, "Allah
cannot reincarnate" then we are saying what He can do or what He
cannot do. He can do whatever He wants to do.

Non-believers, verse 54:

"And they (the disbelievers) devised their plans,
and
Allah devised His!
Allah is the best
planner," (The Family of 'Imran, 54)

<8>Unbelievers think that they can cheat on
God, especially by
changing the Scriptures. But they do not know that
God is very aware of their hearts and will carry out His own
Plan for the universe. They change the Scriptures or try to follow
their own false egos
in order to serve their own purposes. However, then
God
sends another great Prophet (in this case
Prophet
Muhammad) to bring truth back to the
light again. <9>So the sun does not stay under the
clouds forever. Truth should be accepted by all. That is The
Plan.

<10>God
brings His religion again and again into this world. The people try
to destroy it, but another Prophet or
spiritual teacher
comes and reveals truth from the
Akashic Records
again, until eventually all understand and see the hand of
God in history and
creation. Then people should stop fighting the truth and accept it!

"Remember when
Allah
told Esa that: I will
cause you to die and then your Soul shall be ascended unto me, and
will clean you from calumnies of disbelievers, and will exalt you
above disbelievers to the Day of Judgment; then unto Me you all will
return, and I shall judge between you on what you used to differ."
(The Family of 'Imran, 55)

<12>These people have been reincarnated again
and again, and have set the world in the right direction. <13>Later
on, the world becomes corrupt again. So they have to come
back.
<14>However, each time they come back some new people will be
saved and will reach higher consciousness. This process will
continue until all understand The Plan of
God
and establish the Kingdom
Of Heaven On Earth. That is why
Christ called them "the salt of the earth" (Matthew 5:13). Without these people we would not even be here where we are now.
That is why they are above disbelievers.

"A righteous human being whom
Allah had given the
Scripture and wisdom and the prophethood will not say to people:
Worship me instead of
Allah. But
according to their duty, they say:
Be faithful devotees of
God, by constant preaching and attentive studying of the
Scriptures." (The Family of 'Imran, 79)

<15>It says, "Those whom
Allah sends as His
Messengers or
Prophets do not
tell people, 'Worship me.' They come and say, 'Worship the Lord.'"
<16>For example, even if
God incarnated Himself
as a human and started preaching the truth, what good would it do
for Him to say who He is? The only thing that would happen is that
the people who followed Him would create big
false egos and
would start to look down at others. <17>That is why those who
take
Prophets as the
Lord
God or think they
themselves are the only chosen ones do more harm than good for
God-realization.

<18>Also this verse is helpful to observe
some points that
Prophet
Muhammad was revealing:

<19>"Whom
Allah
had given the Scripture and wisdom and the prophethood": So
God can give prophethood
to anyone He wishes to, in any time of history before and after
Prophet
Muhammad. It is up to Him. Even thinking that any Prophet is the
last is a
sin, because we are
saying what
God should do or should
not do. The Lord
God has a Great Plan to
fulfill, and He will not stop until it is fulfilled.

<20>"Be faithful devotees of
God by constant
preaching and attentive studying of the Scripture": Here it is
emphasized to read the Scriptures and share
satsang. <21>That
is one of the reasons why religions have lost their validity,
because people do not know about them. So they just believe whatever
they have been told by other people or preachers.

<22>"Attentive studying of the Scripture": Study of the Scriptures is one of the duties of the human. Those who
believe they can find all the truth only by meditating are
completely wrong. Study is a great part of spiritual progress.